August 17, 2014 by Ken Nowack
“I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be.” Warren Bennis People follow leaders for two reasons–the first is because they believe that the leader has a vision of a better tomorrow (more accurate knowledge and ability to translate it into results) and the second is that […]
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August 15, 2014 by Wally Bock
Leadership development may be the most important thing any company does. That’s why, every week, I review blogs and other publications that cover leadership development to find the very best leadership development posts. This week, you’ll find pointers to posts about challenging tomorrow’s leaders, finding and developing HiPos , learning in the Collaboration Age, and […]
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August 13, 2014 by Wally Bock
Leadership development is for the future The picture depicts a woman washing down her living room with a hose. Water splashes off the sofa and runs to a drain the middle of the room. The woman is wearing a dress and heels. There is an ashtray on the table. That picture is in an article […]
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August 8, 2014 by Wally Bock
Leadership development may be the most important thing any company does. That’s why, every week, I review blogs and other publications that cover leadership development to find the very best leadership development posts. This week, you’ll find pointers to posts about leadership development today and a decade ago, leadership transitions, seizing leadership development opportunities, and […]
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August 6, 2014 by Wally Bock
Warren Bennis died on July 31, 2014 at the age of 89. If what you do has anything to do with leadership development, you owe him a debt of gratitude. Kevin Cashman went so far as to call him, “the farther of leadership development.” That may be overstating things just a bit, but there’s no […]
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August 1, 2014 by Wally Bock
Leadership development may be the most important thing any company does. That’s why, every week, I review blogs and other publications that cover leadership development to find the very best leadership development posts. This week, you’ll find pointers to posts about preparing millennials for leadership success, good succession practices, top executives and high potential programs, […]
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July 30, 2014 by Wally Bock
Usually a survey of managers about what they think they do and a survey of workers about what managers actually do yield wildly different results. Not this time. Human Resource Executive (7/24/14) reported on a CNN survey that asked people what characterized the best bosses. Here are the top three things. Respect and appreciate their […]
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July 27, 2014 by Ken Nowack
“If you ask me anything I don’t know, I’m not going to answer.†Yogi Berra My 85/10/5 Rule of Coaching Most of my executive coaching engagements have been largely unsuccessful in terms of positive “outcomes.†My coaching track record is easy to measure and I refer to it as the “85/10/5†rule. It is important […]
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July 25, 2014 by Wally Bock
Leadership development may be the most important thing any company does. That’s why, every week, I review blogs and other publications that cover leadership development to find the very best leadership development posts. This week, you’ll find pointers to posts about the priority and urgency of leadership development, characteristics of successful senior executives, and where […]
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July 23, 2014 by Wally Bock
I’ve been reading posts like China Gorman’s “The Urgency of Leadership Development” and the Training Journal’s “Leadership development top priority for 2014.” They make it seem like, all of a sudden, top management has realized that leadership development is important. Great. The problem is that we’ve heard all this before. What companies usually do is […]
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